Marawandia iranica
No picture of Marawandia iranica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Marawandia iranica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarawandiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Agelasida
Time the record covers
At most 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 211.18 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Marawandia iranica on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
5 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Marawandia iranica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Marawandia iranica and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Marawandia iranica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Iranothalamia incrustans4 sites
- Nevadathalamia variabilis4 sites
- Paradeningeria alpina4 sites
- Tabasia media4 sites
- Uvanella irregularis4 sites
- Amblysiphonella3 sites
- Permocorynella maxima3 sites
- Preperonidella iranica3 sites
- Preperonidella norica3 sites
- Senowbaridaryana raretrabeculata3 sites
- Sestrostomella robusta3 sites
- Anguispongia parva2 sites
- Annaecoelia interiecta2 sites
- Cryptocoelia wurmi2 sites
- Kashanella irregularis2 sites
- Molengraaffia regularis2 sites
- Naybandella prosiphonata2 sites
- Parauvanella ferdowsensis2 sites
- Paravesicocaulis naybandensis2 sites
- Senowbaridaryana rectangulata2 sites
- Stylothalamia columnaris2 sites
- Tabasia conica2 sites
- Tyanada variabilis2 sites
- Alpinophragmium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Marawandia iranica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Some Inozoid sponges from Upper Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) Nayband Formation of Central Iran4
- Sponges from a section of the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation, northeast of Esfahan, central Iran1
Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Marawandia iranica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Marawandia iranica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Marawandia iranica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMarawandia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Senowbari-Daryan et al. 1997